skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't underestimate how cheap EC2 can be to a large organization, with complicated rules and structures around things like physical facilities, etc.

Especially when you buy down the rates for 'reserved' instances (or even the FFP GovCloud stuff).
I tried it and it looks all blurred in my text editor.
I've been using this in elementary OS. Between that and using agnoster in zsh, I'm in nerd heaven.

http://i.imgur.com/FoFUg.png

Actually, between elementary OS's font rendering settings, great terminal support and unix/linux tools, I'm spending basically every second on my MBA inside my eOS VM.
Better yet, learn macros. It's the repetitive stuff that kills your hands/arm/wrist.

Anybody using vim needs to know about the map command.
The Chicago School: Internet Search and the Antitrust Treatment of Google
3 Mistakes that lead to mediocrity
The page is only showing the first few sentences on my iPad, before the footer covers it up. :/
Don't Let Your Fire Go Out
Doubt it. If as rumored, Apple releases an iPad 'mini', I think this is going to be an iPod situation, where the iPad grabs the majority of the market, with a lot of smaller manufacturers picking up the bits.

The thing is, Android phones were pushed by carriers. For tablets, this hardly happens, although I've seen "free tablet" promotions when getting a new internet connection, but that has hardly done anything as far as I know.

The Kindle fire might be a contender, but I don't really see that as a real competitor, and that's hardly Android. The software quality also seems to be very low to me.

And then you have Microsoft, who is making the same mistakes they made the first time they attempted a tablet. They will maybe sell a few, but if the sales of the 'ultrabooks' are a good indication, expensive tablets running Windows 8 won't be the success they're hoping for.

I know dozens of people having an iPad, including complete non-techies - and they love it. I know 1 guy with an Asus transformer, and 1 with a Galaxy tab 10", both IT guys. The Asus's build quality surprised me in the positive way, the galaxy tab in a negative way. In both cases, I thought the software was useless, and web-browsing slow and sluggish compared to my iPad 2.

That said, the moment I can order a Nexus 7 here in Belgium, I'm getting one.
Copyright includes the right to decide whether copies will be sold at all. That right traditionally ends, for any given copy, once that copy has been sold for the first time, which is the first-sale doctrine.

The quirk in this case is that it's dealing with things which had been legally sold... but not in the United States, and the doctrine is actually that the right to control sale of copies ends at the first authorized sale that occurs in the United States, not at the first sale that occurs anywhere in the world.

Since the textbooks were purchased elsewhere and then imported, they had not undergone a first sale in the US, and so US first-sale doctrine had not ended the copyright holder's right to control sale.
> Is there a substance that you can't abuse?

Do you mean a substance that has no harmful or excessive dose? No, I don't think so. People have had aspirin from prehistoric times (obtained from willow bark), but aspirin has well-established dangers.

My reason for posting was to make people aware that this seemingly benign non-prescription drug can be dangerous.

> Not even talking about alcohol, take sugar for example.

Sugar is a great example of a substance that has all sorts of deleterious effects, from the time it enters you mouth and erodes your teeth, all the way through your system. The central paradox of modern times isn't what's illegal, but what's legal. :)

Apropos, try to guess where the most dangerous place is for the average person in modern times. Ready? The bedroom. And if you're married, the danger is much higher.
I have privately been using ThinkPads exclusively for many years now.
These are the best laptops I ever used (and I am being supplied with work laptops that ranged from MacBook to Dells).

The part I relate the most with in the presentation is that ThinkPads are not trendy or flashy. No they are not, they are not gadgets or things you show off, they are functional tools that just work.
Your prompt is awesome, mind sharing? And actually you have some interesting config going on with Sublime. The dots next to the files? Is that a source control flag or something?

Re-read and realized you mention the theme, link for others who are curious: https://gist.github.com/3712874
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With any VCS, commits are explicit. Dropbox and the like need implicit sync.
next step: Vim and tmux, I promise you won't look back :)
did you install otf or ttf version? otf rendered worse in my case than ttf.
I work with Jonathan as a client - and my organization also does ROWE. I can say for a certainty that it works great for Rails projects. It comes down to intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation.

Hours, made-up deadlines, etc. are all forms of extrinsic motivation which have been proven to destroy creativity, problem solving, and productivity.

ROWE needs to be a part of a bigger whole at how we look at and motivate employees. If you just drop ROWE into your current organization without taking a systems-level view, you're likely to fail. ROWE is like Agile - it's not a panacea - but if you zoom out and incorporate the philosophy at a systems level, I think you'll get great results.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mG-hhWL_ug
Lpr: Print file from command line
he lpr (line printer) command prints the file from the Linux terminal. The lpr utility places one or more files in a print queue for printing. The concept of queue allows several users of the system allow to send output to the single printer. The queue are printed simultaneously i.e the first file in the queue gets printed first and so on
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It's an extremely minor revenge for the companies doing something morally wrong. You're reading too much into it.
Which VPS you use?
Sounds like exactly what I need - and what I usually use Dropbox for.

If anyone could spare me an invitation...
I had this 'problem' to, on a macbook...unless this is some sort of Irony-by-design?

[edit: on firefox]
"...I like three sentences: (1) what we do, (2) who we do it to, and (3) why you should care."

Should (2) be "who we do it for"? Mine goes something like...

1: I teach mathematics
2: I encourage adults who always had problems with school Maths to learn and achieve a qualification
3: Mathematical reasoning is important for sensible decision making both in everyday life and in science and in making political choices
I've been there before, Sublime has much better syntax highlighting (especially for Go).

I have a customized vim config and I give it a serious shot once a year. So far Sublime Text 2 still has me very, very happy.
COMING SOON: THE WITCHER 2 FOR MAC
zsh + oh-my-zsh + 'agnoster' theme (agnoster is now included in oh-my-zsh).

The dots are unsaved files (usually they're files that are open that I've renamed/deleted and thus it marks them as unsaved).

The ST2 theme is "Aqua/Monokai Aqua"

(EDIT: Note, that prompt looks AWFUL in Terminal.app/iTerm2.app. It can be made to look nice if you adjust the palette color settings for your emulator, fortunately, this screenshot is with Gnome-terminal's Tango palette.).
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Awesome! I use oh-my-zsh so i'll give her a spin.
He said that Google had "commissioned" the study but the views expressed it it were solely his and Bork's. (Because of health reasons, Bork didn't attend today's AEI event.)

-- In case anyone was wondering. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Still Interesting.
Yep.. Anonymous Pro is also my choice.
Also i switched to Source Code for now to test :)
Both are good anyway..
Ccv cut the 0.2 stable, and what's new
"Please note that Source Code Pro comes with varying lightness degrees (I think there was 5 of them)." <- From the comments on this article; might be useful.
I'm not sure if my brain is failing me but... "I calculated a less than 0.001% chance of posts (content) making the front page of Reddit. That is a 1/1000 chance."

Surely 1% is a 1 in 100 chance, 0.1% is a 1 in 1,000 chance, 0.001% would be 1 in 100,000 chance. Have I made a critical error here?
> Your suggestion to the previous author was to separate out 10 of the ideas, and to put the other 80 in a post-script or follow-up. But why?

So more people will read what he has to say. The basic principle of journalism, online and offline, is "don't bury your lead."

> Furthermore, the author's article stood out and was very effective, because, how many 90-point lists do you see posted to HN?

Yes, and how many atheists run for president? I suggest you're making a point other than the one you think.

> I'm sure you can see the irony in suggesting to a successful entrepreneur that they might have been more successful in some successful endeavor, had they instead done it like everyone else.

It seems you missed the irony that being a successful entrepreneur doesn't automatically make one a successful writer. I wasn't criticizing the OP's accomplishments, but his way of expressing them.

By your reasoning, Steve Jobs' business successes would have automatically made him a nice person to know, and/or a persuasive writer. But it seems those corollaries are false -- and the first I know to be false from personal experience.
Let's not feed the troll. This is utter nonsense.
Well I imagine that there would be no advantage to upscaling the original photograph, as you'd not be gaining any detail. But otherwise, I'd be curious to see what happens.
"I try to answer all of my emails and be responsive to any inquiry. This was a random one (of which I get between 25 and 100 each day)."

Now I feel so much less special that he responded to my email :(
Problems that are inherently too complicated to explain in a sentence or two aren't worth solving, at least not for startups.

I think the problem comes in trying to explain something to someone (an investor) without domain knowledge. In order to be succinct, you have to make some assumptions. It's sort of like a mathematical proof. Given a sufficiently complex problem, a shorter proof generally makes more assumptions about the reader's knowledge than a longer one.

Customers will generally understand the problem better, since you are presumably working on one of their pain points. So it's easier to explain a solution to them than to investors who probably don't have those same pain points. It's in an investor's best interest to be more open to longer pitches unless they already understand the domain.
Another side effect of continual ibuprofen use is it interferes with the healing process. I have chronic neck/back pain (had some surgery over ten years ago) and was taking ibuprofen every day, my doc even prescribed some 800mg pills. Overtime I had noticed that small cuts on my hands and body took a long time to heal. I went to a lecture by a scientist who was researching the biology behind aging. She happened to mention that ibuprofen interferes with the healing process if taken long term. I quit taking it and now small cuts heal normally.
Twitter Dominates Live TV Because Social TV Is Failing
Are you familiar with git-annex and its helpful assistant?
The jvm is doing fine. A low level stack oriented language can be a target.
You are correct. The Source Code Pro light variant looks less fuzzy than Source Code Pro (normal). OSX does very fuzzy fonts by default. I updated the blog post to reflect that you should consider the light variant first on OSX.

Also when switching to the retina display the fuzziness goes 100% away.
One of my next projects is to use diff-path-merge to build cloud9 for Go. I want to be able to have collaborative editting combined with Go's fast compiles to have a multi-user cooperative coding environment.

But it will still use a "shim" of sorts. It will basically sync via d-p-m and websockets to a server that will do the saving/building/running and then return the output.
Reinvention and Re-Rolling the Dice
I pulled Source Code Pro out of brackets a few weeks ago and loved it in Sublime, VS, and ConEMU on Windows and iTerm2 on the Mac. Then someone pointed me at Envy Code R [1]...

I find it much more pleasing with the benefit of great differentiation between 0 O etc...

http://damieng.com/blog/2008/05/26/envy-code-r-preview-7-cod...
I always come back to Terminus. Been using it for god knows how many years now.
I'll be happy to invite you, but I don't have your email address.
Start-ups generally don't have a problem until they get into the making-money or getting publicity stage. After that you'll pick up all kinds of parasites, patent trolls are only one of the many classes these fall into, and they're not nearly the most frequently encountered ones.

Look out for: rogue angels, investment bankers, bad partners, bad leave co-founders and so on. Lots of people want a slice of the start-up pie without pulling their weight.
Yeah I think this is the best approach. For my one-pager I have a one paragraph explanation, followed by a FAQ. Virtually everyone has the same questions in the same order after hearing the pitch, so it makes it super easy to explain both in person and in writing. I could always rewrite it in a more traditional way, but I think it's actually easiest to read as is.
So it seems. Thanks!
Let me clarify. I meant startup management thinking, "what should our work hour policy be?"

Personally yes, I have become much more efficient since having a kid and add hard timeboxing to my schedule.
Apple publicly addresses iPhone 5 purple halo issue
I like it, but it's too wide. My top font choice is PragmataPro:

http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm

Some sample screenshots from OS X:

http://i.imgur.com/oxhSg.png (white background)

http://i.imgur.com/M0ZJz.png (black background)
Maybe I am broken, but I think they are the best looking laptops. Ironically, their "function-over-form" design yields a form I find beautiful.
I have a hard time understanding how this can be considered an antitrust violation when switching is so easy and there is so much competition in the space. While a company should be held accountable for harming consumers, it should be held accountable for stupid consumers.

I really don't like how Google is including all the links to their own properties inside of their searches. In fact, I like it so little that I pipe most of my searches through DDG now. Yet I still wind up at Google around 20% of the time when I'm searching for terms with many matches. Google gets the ordering better.

It is scary to think what might happen if Google is found to be violating antitrust laws.
Good observation, but too bad that no one will ever see your high DPI images because the "retina revolution" isn't a thing. Most people won't ever notice the difference.
Perhaps it's a minimum viable product of the "landing/signup page only" form. Or maybe that's part of the parody.
Hacker cracks 4 million hotel locks with 'James Bond Dry Erase Marker'
How would I make gmail use the smtp servers?
Tears in rain soliloquy
"10x engineers don't do it on short hours. They do it by working harder in an environment where everyone is smart. Cf Claude Shannon ("achievement is exponential, working 10% longer has a compounding effect, like interest in a bank account") or Randy Pausch ("if you want me to tell you the secret of my success, call me any Friday night at my office")"

That is some Gold. Thanks!
I use ThinkPads and their timeless design is one of my favorite things about them. For a lot of people, shiny aluminum is great, but some appreciate the ThinkPad color scheme.
For the curious, there is some actual data about this kind of thing over here: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings

The United States does rank higher than any European economy (which surprised me) in the aggregate ranking, there are categories where it is well behind.
Anybody thinking of using IndexedDB should be familiar with the concept of unhosted apps and remote storage, because IndexedDB is one of the technologies that may comprise remoteStorage-compatible websites and webapps.

http://www.w3.org/community/unhosted/wiki/RemoteStorage

http://unhosted.org/

We should use this client-side storage solutions to move in the direction of clients owning and controlling their data - along with better support for offline use.
I've been using a Macbook for years now and love it, but reading this makes me nostalgic for my ThinkPad from a few years back. It truly stood apart from all other PC laptops. I happen to think (just my opinion) that the black body was a stroke of genius. The cobalt blue 'enter' key contrasted beautifully with the black keyboard. I miss the magnesium alloy hinges. Look back to the IBM 370 mainframe console from the 1970s and you'll see the origins of the ThinkPad aesthetic: http://www.answers.com/topic/system-370. The look and feel of the keyboard was sublime, nothing else matched it. The trackpoint was wonderfully quick and accurate. I didn't fully appreciate it until I tried the same mechanism on a Dell and found it to be clumsy and badly calibrated. A ThinkPad running Gentoo Linux was a beautiful thing. In recent years Lenovo seems to be cutting costs and compromising the look and feel of this legendary machine. And Macbooks are slowly but steadily being turned into appliances for the masses and becoming closed machines. I wonder if ten years from now there will be a handheld or personal computing device capable of generating the same kind of cult following.
^ Too late for me to edit this, I should have said fully pressurised. The LES, the suit used on shuttle missions up to the late 90s, was partially pressurised.
Chuck Moore's philosophy is well explained by this paragraph:

> Likewise the conditionals. In Classic Forth we used IF ELSE THEN

> And I have eliminated ELSE.

> I don't see that ELSE is as useful as the complexity it introduces would justify. You can see this in my code. I will have IF with a semicolon and then I will exit the definition at that point or continue.

He also highlights why people cannot code well in Forth:

> There is something more than the formalism and syntax of Forth that has got to be embedded in your brain before you're going to be effective at what you do.

The average programmer cannot grasp that "thing" that makes you a good Forth programmer.
The presentation looked fine and loaded really fast on my Android phone using 3G network.
ACM has a bunch of classic books for download.
On job titles
Product Colorizer - preview products in different colors
I can't see my friend in the same room!
Yes, one misconfigured server between source and destination can "eat" email and you'll never be the wiser. Doesn't happen often, but it can and the protocol does not detect it.
Android may overtake iPad or not - what are the real implications of this? I think it'll stabilize at some point where either iPad has a little more market share or little less.

Practically it doesn't really matter much. The iOS ecosystem will still thrive, and I personally I think a bit of healthy competition is exactly what we need to push the tablet world forward.
I sometimes do. But I don't have an account or need one for that.
I'm sure it will work great, until they alter their page layout ever so slightly. Change an id here or there. Then you have to scramble to fix for the new layout while your 'API' is down.
If cost would be reduced 10x, I figure there's a pretty high chance the Government will pay them for it.
I've recently switched to coding in a proportional width font (right now I'm using Verdana) and I'm never going back. I've yet to be bothered by things not lining up perfectly like things can in fixed width fonts, and overall my code feels more readable and easy on the eyes. I recommend giving it a try.
Would You Hire Steve Jobs?
Would You Hire Steve Jobs? Fun and insightful blog to make us think different.
Your field has a guild and you enjoy the benefits of a professional culture that is centuries in the making. Fully agree with your points regarding the comparative rates of change, and, the sad fact (isn't it?) that the lack of deep exposure to the existing body of work in field due to a lack of effective apprenticeship of the non-existant-guild gives rise to the "major paradigm shift" every 10 years.
Investors are frustrated that they can't replicate the success of Silicon Valley here in Europe, but our governments aren't the ones to blame. The environment here is different because the people want it that way. It's a different culture with different priorities and different goals.

Just as Hollywood could only have become what it is in the US because it fits the (West Coast) American mentality, so too could a Facebook or Twitter or Instagram only come out of the American way of doing business. I don't see anything wrong with that and I've been able to do business here for almost 20 years. The trick is to not treat the environment here as something it's not and has no intention to become.
I prefer PragmataPro too, but with antialiasing off in Sublime Text. I find it very clean: http://d.pr/i/8uP8
What is the difference between being retarded due to a disability, and being stupid due to genetics?

Is it just a difference of degrees? I mean both are cases of "factor outside of individuals control -> (extremely) low intelligence"
The Xombrero browser (formerly called xxxterm) does a good job at this. I use it with the Awesome window manager and hardly ever touch the mouse.
I'm curious about why you think that? Most of the startups that have used our service so far have been started by engineers (including myself) that need help building a product they actually believe in... not just idea people going after the first thing that comes to mind.

Also, when equity has been issued it was typically in the 10-30% range. Essentially, businesses are using this as a way to find partners - not to dupe engineers.

Thoughts?
this is the wrong way to approach the captchas. you can't just say the right emotion is that of empathy, and anything else is wrong.
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Someone has looked at their Paul Rand history when designing this booklet.
> I know 1 guy with an Asus transformer

I don't know why people are making such a big deal about Samsung tablets and Kindle Fires but completely ignoring the Asus Transformer line. The Asus Transformer Pad Infinity is an amazing tablet with good hardware that runs stock Jelly Bean.

I've had a Transformer Prime for almost a year and it's been a great device, but it's like no one has even heard of it. It's a really weird situation, perhaps caused by a lack of advertising (much like the Galaxy Nexus).
But he isn't trying to be a successful journalist/writer. He was offering advice to other entrepreneurs who would probably take his advice over a journalist's any day of the week.

Being persuasive comes in many forms. You can be a good writer or you can be successful, both of those things get you attention. Being successful might even be better since your words are backed with hard-earned credibility. There's a reason why all sports shows nearly always have a former player/coach as an analyst.
If the iPad mini (or whatever it is actually going to be called) comes out at $199, that takes a lot of room out of the bottom of the market. If it is $249 or $299, then the Fire and other have some space to play in.
The design and font use is a direct clone of many pamphlets Paul Rand made for IBM.
Here is another nice comparison of 24 monospace fonts in one picture:
http://hostpicturefree.com/images/prograpup.png
A big problem with this is from my own experiences, despite the rate limiting on the API, it has far more access to historical data (eg, past tweets) than the browser.